AFA is excited to announce that Joe McPhee will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This innovative composer is a master of both the saxophone and the trumpet. McPhee has devoted his life to the highest standard of musical excellence. His compositions are carefully structured to facilitate collective improvisation and interaction with musicians from a wide range of aesthetics. He consistently chooses equality over hierarchy. His music is notable for his beautiful tone, his melodic center, and his mastery of space and sounds, and he has brought this musical excellence all over the world.
Two record labels were formed to record and release his music; Craig Johnson’s CjR label and Werner Uehlinger’s Hat Hut Records.
WHEN: Monday, June 11 thru Sunday, June 17, 2012
Joe McPhee LifeTime of Achievement, June 13, 2012
Joe McPhee - Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement
Roulette
downtown brooklyn
June 15: Free Outdoor @ Campos Plaza
WHAT’S NEW (schedule are subject to change): June 13 - Joe McPhee - Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement June 11 – 17 - The Multi-Arts Vision Festival takes place in Downtown Brooklyn June 12 - Special AUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary Celebration ALL Week – All-Stars Workman/Cyrille/Lake, Wadada/Grimes, Simmons, Dunmall, Sheila Jordan,
Plus PANELs:ART: DANCE: After Hour Performances June 15 – FREE @ Campos Plaza - Parker All-Stars + Poets for Peace +Music Is Mine Youth Band June 16 – 70 young musicians perform Saturday Afternoon
WHEN: Monday, June 11 thru Sunday, June 17, 2012
WHERE: ROULETTE, (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY)
TICKETS: Daily Admission: $30 per day / $20 students & seniors Festival Passes are $170
INFO: Email info@visionfestival.org / Call (212) 254-5420
URL: www.artsforart.org
Legendary for his beautiful tone, his melodic center, and the freedom with which he approaches music, Mr. Joe McPhee will receive this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award. It is with great joy that Arts for Art pays homage to this innovative composer, a master of both the saxophone and the trumpet, who has devoted his life to the highest standard of musical excellence. His compositions are carefully structured to facilitate collective improvisation and interaction with musicians from a wide range of aesthetics. He consistently chooses equality over hierarchy. He has spread across the world the message of a pure tone, an organic intensity of melody and rhythm, and an innate understanding of the balance of sound and space. Highlights include: Celebrating the Great Joe McPhee, The Thing, A Special McPhee Big Band; Sonny Simmons, additional Highlights: Kneebody; Mark Dresser, Rudresh Mahanthappa; Hamid Drake; Dave Burrell, William Hooker; Rob Brown; Marshall Allen, Henry Grimes; Sheila Jordan; Pheeroan akLaff; Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille, Oliver Lake; Roy Campbell; Paul Dunmall, Matthew Shipp; Joelle Leandre, Nicole Mitchell; Kidd Jordan, Charles Gayle; AUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary with William Parker, David Ware, Darius Jones and and and .
Monday June 11th - Sunday June 17th, 2012
@ ROULETTE, 509 Atlantic Ave, BROOKLYN, NY
Monday June 11 OPENING NIGHT
6:00 PM Opening Invocation
Patricia Nicholson, Fay Victor, Kyoko Kitamurra, William Parker,
Hamid Drake, Gerald Cleaver, Michael Wimberly
7:00 PM Kneebody / Monome
Adam Benjamin / Ben Wendel / Kaveh Rastegar
Nate Wood / Shane Endsley Arts for Art’s presentation of Kneebody is supported by Presenting Jazz, a program of Chamber Music America funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
8:00 PM Dunmall / Shipp / Morris / Cleaver
Paul Dunmall – reed / Matthew Shipp – piano /
Joe Morris – bass / Gerald Cleaver - drums
9:00 PM Sharp / Morris
Tracie Morris - poet / Elliott Sharp - guitar
10:00 PM Mark Dresser Quintet
Rudresh Mahanthappa - altosax / MarkDresser – bass
Michael Dessen – trombone / Denman Maroney – piano / Michael Sarin - drums
June 12thAUM Fidelity 15th Anniversary Celebration
7:00 PM David Spencer Ware / Planetary Unknown
David Spencer Ware – saxophones / Cooper-Moore – piano /
William Parker – bass / Muhammad Ali - drums
8:30 PM Darius Jones Quartet
Darius Jones - alto saxophone / Matt Mitchell - piano /
Trevor Dunn – bass / Ches Smith - drums
10:00 PM William Parker / In Order To Survive
William Parker – bass / Cooper-Moore – piano / Rob Brown - alto sax /
Lewis Barnes – trumpet / Hamid Drake - drums
Wednesday June 13 Joe McPhee A LifeTime of Achievement
7:00 PM Joe McPhee / ANGELS, DEVILS AND HAINTS II (Playing in THE GARDENS OF HARLEM - a tribute to Clifford Thornton)
4 basses - Dominic Duval, Michael Bisio, Hilliard Greene, William Parker
4 horns - Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Joe Giardullo, Joe McPhee
1 violin – Rosie Hertlein; 2 percussionist - Warren Smith, Jay Rosen
8:30 PM Sonny Simmons Ensemble Sonny Simmons - alto sax, english horn / William Parker - bass Thomas Bellier - electric guitar / Warren Smith - drums
10:00 PM The Thing /featuring Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee - sax & trumpet / Mats Gustaffson - tenorbaritone
Ingebrigt Haker - flaten bass / Paal Nilssen-Love - drums
Thursday June 14
5:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION –
7:00 PM ETERNAL UNITY
Dave Burrell - piano / Sabir Mateen - reeds
William Parker - bass / William Hooker - drums
8:30 PM Dangerous Women / Moving Sound
Patricia Nicholson - dance/words / Connie Crothers - piano
9:30 PM Ivo Perelman Trio
Whit Dickey - drums / Ivo Perelman - sax / Michael Bisio - bass
10:30 PM Hamid Drake Ensemble
Jeff Parker – guitar / Jeb Bishop - trombone / Pasquale Mira vibes
Josh Abrams – bass / Hamid Drake - drums
Friday June 15th 2012 FREE at CAMPOS PLAZA
3 PM POETS OUT LOAD / co-presented by TRIBES Peace Poets / Tribes presentsEdwin Torres,
4 PM Children of Music Is Mine - percussion, voice, recorder
Accompanied by Jean Carla Rodea, William Parker, Daniel Carter 5 PM The Mystery Collective William Parker, ?, Daniel Carter, Jean Carla Rodea, drums
Friday June 15
7:00 PM Sheila Jordan & Jay Clayton / Bebop to Freebop
Jack Wilkins – guitar / Cameron Brown - bass
8:30 PM Roy Campbell / Eran Elisha
9:30 PM Henry Grimes / Wadada Leo Smith
Henry Grimes – bass, violin / Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet
10:30 PM Pheeroan akLaff / Freedom Ensemble featuring Amiri Baraka - poet
Jun Miyake - woodwinds / Santi Debriano – bass / Pheeroan akLaff – drums Saturday June 16
5:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION
7:00 PM Steve Swell QUINTET
Steve Swell - trombone / Rob Brown - alto / Chris Forbes - piano
Hill Greene - bass / Michael T.A. Thompson - drums
8:30 PM PREMIERE
Joelle Leandre - bass / Nikki Mitchell - flute / Thomas Buckner - voice 9:30 PM TRIO 3
Reggie Workman – bass / Andrew Cyrille – drums / Oliver Lake - sax
10:30 PM Jason Kao Hwang / BURNING BRIDGE
Jason Hwang – violin / Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet/flugelhorn
Ken Filiano - string bass / Andrew Drury - drum set
Wang Guowei – erhu / Sun Li – pipa / Steve Swell - trombone Burning Bridge by Jason Kao Hwang has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s 2009 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Sunday June 17
video ARTIST Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer
4:00 PM PANEL DISCUSSION
6:00 PM Ingrid Laubrock / ANTI-HOUSE
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone / Mary Halvorson – guitar / Kris Davis – piano / John Hebert – bass / Tom Rainey - drums
7:00 PM BURNT SUGAR the ARKESTRA CHAMBER / Holy Ghost And Fire
Greg "Ionman" Tate - conduction/guitar/laptop / Vernon Reid - guitar /conduction Lisala - vocals / Shelley Nicole - vocals/percussion /
Mikel Banks - vocals/conduction/freak-a-phone /
Lewis "Flip" Barnes Jr. – trumpet / Micah Gaugh - alto sax /
V. Jeffery Smith - tenor sax / Avram Fefer - tenor sax /
"Moist" Paula Henderson - bari sax / Andre Lassalle - guitar /
BenTyree – guitar / Bruce Mack - vocals/keyboards /
Jared Michael Nickerson - electric bass / LaFrae Sci - drums
8:30 PM Rob Brown / Daniel Levin
9:30 PM KIDD Jordan Quintet
Kidd Jordan alto, Charles Gayle tenor, piano, J.D. Parron, sax
William Parker bass,Hamid Drake drums
Friday June 15
7:00 PM Sheila Jordan & Jay Clayton / Bebop to Freebop
Jack Wilkins – guitar / Cameron Brown - bass
This is the only set I'm really interested in, as tempting as the prospect of a band with Dominic Duval, William Parker and Jay Rosen is to me, not to mention the prospect of seeing the great bagpipe master Paul Dunmall...
Cleaver is a different drummer than Sanders but if he is anything like he was this past December 10th, it should be spectacular. I think Shipp and Dunmall will be a good mix. And I hear that Morris is wonderful on bass.
also I am seeing that amazing Cleaver band again on May 11th - with Darius Jones, Brandon Seabrook (awesome guitarist), the *great* Cooper-Moore and an incredible young bassist - Pascal Nigenkemper(sp?) again @ Cornelia Street.
I hope a couple of people here show up for this band - it is a must see, do not miss kind of band
even with David S. Ware not being able to perform, Tuesday night is a great night for many to attend if at all possible.
All who havn't seen Hamid Drake play live may take this opportunity to see the man up close and personal. 3 nights to have a chance to see the great drummer who has not played often recently in NYC.
My plans are for Monday and Tuesday night with a possibility for Wed and/or Saturday night.
To me the can't miss bands are:
Dunmall/Shipp/Morris/Cleaver and Mark Dresser's Quintet on Monday Night
All 3 bands on Tuesday Night - especially In Order to Survive - Farmers by Nature replaces David S. Ware's quartet which is Taborn-Parker-Cleaver which should be very very good. And Darius Jones is, well, Darius Jones - for those who havn't seen him live, please do so.
The Thing with the *great* Mats Gustaffson joined by Joe McPhee on Wed night - with Sonny Simmons band promising and maybe the large ensemble than opens the night could be great or who knows?
Steve Swell's Quintet and Trio 3 on Saturday night
Lois, it's the last item on the schedule for Tuesday, June 12:
Tuesday June 12th, 2012
. . .
AFTER HOURS at Clemente Soto Velez 107 Suffolk St. Manhattan 12:00AM - 1:00AM - Sound Band / led by Jemeel Moondoc
Tor Snyder - guitar
Nicole Federici - violin
Matt Lavelle, Kirk Knuffke - trp
Pete Dragotta- tuba
Ras Moshe, Zak Sherzad, Yoni Kretzner - sax
David Moss, Max Johnson - bass
Bernard Myers, Tiffany Chang - drums
maybe more later but a few comments on the first 2 nights....
saw all the bands - can do without the opening invocation but I could still hear Drake, Parker and Cleaver behind the nonsensical wailing of 3 ladies.... and I knew the drummers sounded great from my front row seat..
don't know what Kneebody is or why they were there but it had something to do with a grant....and I waited for Dunmall, Shipp, Morris and Cleaver
starts out a bit forced with Dunmall only with his tenor which is a plus - maybe it isn't even his tenor, I don't know. Shipp plays all the time, some strong stuff but too much just rolling on the keys thinking maybe it is like Chris MacGregor but I want some space - but Dunmall often makes me forget about that as he takes the tenor out to great places - then the last 30 minutes of the hour set Paul Dunmall and Gerald Cleaver find an incredible rapport and the set turns magnificent - especially when Shipp finally gives the band some space and let's Dunmall explore the full dynamics of sound and space - the final groove is subtle and immensely powerful.
Sharp was fine but the lady singer was a bit much for me
Dresser's band good with one great long form thing in the middle with all pieces meshing - highlights are Rudresh and Maroney along with the great bassist
good night
second night...fine melodic solo set by Eri Yamamoto
Farmers by Nature started off very softly and was a challenging hour (in a good way) with fine playing by all 3 - Taborn as good as I expect from him.
Darius Jones quartet - shorter set with the highlights being his playing on a couple of ballad like pieces where his sound raises the roof - Matt Mitchell is fine on piano and Smith and Dunn played well - my wife commented that this was a bit more mainstream and both of us enjoyed it - Jones remains a strong newer voice on the alto saxophone...
and THEN.....
I FORGOT
yes - I have seen a great many great drummers the past coupl of years and I did see Cooper-Moore with Cleaver's band last December - and I know these guys been playing together forever - supposedly there is nothing new BLAH BLAH
playing a tribute to the hurting Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre who is suffering with blindness from cataracts, William Parker composed the suite that they just premiered in Montreal last weekend.
and they go...
Cecil Taylor is alive, I know
Paul Bley is alive
Keith Tippet is alive
Cooper-Moore is the greatest pianist alive - well my opinion, of course - but for me last night was beyond anything I have ever seen or heard from at the 88 keys. He improvised plays the thematic material better than the 2 wonderful horn players and his excursions into the stratosphere were superhuman - and his comping!!!!!!! this guy played the phases Brown and Barnes improvising *while* they were playing them - and then the elbows, the knuckles and all of it - and he then knew how to bring the sound down, lay out, come back, build up...we heard 3 good to great pianists the first 3 hours - but Cooper-Moore is beyond any of that - genius is genius - it doesn't come often maybe it doesn't happen all the time as he was wonderful last December - but last night - more than that
but I FORGOT
Hamid Drake made a fan out of my wife for life - she knows as the *great* Gary Sisco said, that if you bring anyone with an open mind to hear Hamid, they leave knowing they have witnessed the greatest drummer in the world.
yes - for what he does, He is the greatest drummer in the world - my wife said it best - he isn't a jazz drummer like all the other ones, even her previous favorite Nasheet Waits...she might even have us coming back next Sunday..
last thing - I told Hamid Monday night that I am bringing my wife on Tuesday to see him and that I told her that she will hear a different or better version of Nasheet..he smiles..he doesn't know me
last night he remembers - I met your husband last night, etc. and as always he is the nicest person in the room - the most gracious and Barbara (my wife) gave him a hug and a kiss - and I tell him that I hope he says hello to his friend and mine - Ulrich - when he gets back in Chicago
as my wife said, it was the greatest band she ever saw - she isn't a "jazz fan" but she likes the shows - but this is a band that all should see live - Parker's themes were as strong as anything I have heard from him, Rob Brown was stupendous and Barnes was succinct and cutting - and seeing and hearing William Parker and Hamid Drake 10 feet in front of me connect like no other bassist and drummer do was shown during a duo section with Parker playing Parker and Hamid with just his hands - pure magic and telepathy.
maybe more later but a few comments on the first 2 nights....
saw all the bands - can do without the opening invocation but I could still hear Drake, Parker and Cleaver behind the nonsensical wailing of 3 ladies.... and I knew the drummers sounded great from my front row seat..
don't know what Kneebody is or why they were there but it had something to do with a grant....and I waited for Dunmall, Shipp, Morris and Cleaver
starts out a bit forced with Dunmall only with his tenor which is a plus - maybe it isn't even his tenor, I don't know. Shipp plays all the time, some strong stuff but too much just rolling on the keys thinking maybe it is like Chris MacGregor but I want some space - but Dunmall often makes me forget about that as he takes the tenor out to great places - then the last 30 minutes of the hour set Paul Dunmall and Gerald Cleaver find an incredible rapport and the set turns magnificent - especially when Shipp finally gives the band some space and let's Dunmall explore the full dynamics of sound and space - the final groove is subtle and immensely powerful.
Sharp was fine but the lady singer was a bit much for me
Dresser's band good with one great long form thing in the middle with all pieces meshing - highlights are Rudresh and Maroney along with the great bassist
good night
second night...fine melodic solo set by Eri Yamamoto
Farmers by Nature started off very softly and was a challenging hour (in a good way) with fine playing by all 3 - Taborn as good as I expect from him.
Darius Jones quartet - shorter set with the highlights being his playing on a couple of ballad like pieces where his sound raises the roof - Matt Mitchell is fine on piano and Smith and Dunn played well - my wife commented that this was a bit more mainstream and both of us enjoyed it - Jones remains a strong newer voice on the alto saxophone...
and THEN.....
I FORGOT
yes - I have seen a great many great drummers the past coupl of years and I did see Cooper-Moore with Cleaver's band last December - and I know these guys been playing together forever - supposedly there is nothing new BLAH BLAH
playing a tribute to the hurting Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre who is suffering with blindness from cataracts, William Parker composed the suite that they just premiered in Montreal last weekend.
and they go...
Cecil Taylor is alive, I know
Paul Bley is alive
Keith Tippet is alive
Cooper-Moore is the greatest pianist alive - well my opinion, of course - but for me last night was beyond anything I have ever seen or heard from at the 88 keys. He improvised plays the thematic material better than the 2 wonderful horn players and his excursions into the stratosphere were superhuman - and his comping!!!!!!! this guy played the phases Brown and Barnes improvising *while* they were playing them - and then the elbows, the knuckles and all of it - and he then knew how to bring the sound down, lay out, come back, build up...we heard 3 good to great pianists the first 3 hours - but Cooper-Moore is beyond any of that - genius is genius - it doesn't come often maybe it doesn't happen all the time as he was wonderful last December - but last night - more than that
but I FORGOT
Hamid Drake made a fan out of my wife for life - she knows as the *great* Gary Sisco said, that if you bring anyone with an open mind to hear Hamid, they leave knowing they have witnessed the greatest drummer in the world.
yes - for what he does, He is the greatest drummer in the world - my wife said it best - he isn't a jazz drummer like all the other ones, even her previous favorite Nasheet Waits...she might even have us coming back next Sunday..
last thing - I told Hamid Monday night that I am bringing my wife on Tuesday to see him and that I told her that she will hear a different or better version of Nasheet..he smiles..he doesn't know me
last night he remembers - I met your husband last night, etc. and as always he is the nicest person in the room - the most gracious and Barbara (my wife) gave him a hug and a kiss - and I tell him that I hope he says hello to his friend and mine - Ulrich - when he gets back in Chicago
as my wife said, it was the greatest band she ever saw - she isn't a "jazz fan" but she likes the shows - but this is a band that all should see live - Parker's themes were as strong as anything I have heard from him, Rob Brown was stupendous and Barnes was succinct and cutting - and seeing and hearing William Parker and Hamid Drake 10 feet in front of me connect like no other bassist and drummer do was shown during a duo section with Parker playing Parker and Hamid with just his hands - pure magic and telepathy.
In Order to Survive
thks steve. I will ask if he remembers when I see Hamid. Run into Bankhead earlier this week and we talked about him. He is more often out of town than not. I jsut run into this on youtube this morning
booked to go on Sunday - I will miss the lecture but I plan of still finding 2 primo seats strating with the great band that is called ANTI-HOUSE - the trio I saw in March (Halvorson/Laubrock/Rainey) with the *great* Kris Davis on paino and John Hebert on bass.
unlike some others here, I am a fan of Charles Gayle and I have not seen him live since the late 90's.
Once in a lifetime, one must hear a 3 saxophone front line with Parker/Drake.
Don't now what I will be doing the 'solo dance' set but I wont' be in my seat and I doubt I will be dancing
also looking forward to the duet with Brown and Levin. I saw the two of them with Steve Swell a few years ago and Daniel Levin is an outrageously great cellist.
as far as the Vernon Reid band, who knows - maybe my wife will like it or maybe they will be something else - who knows? some great guys in the band, that's for sure!
[QUOTE=Steve Reynolds;944952]booked to go on Sunday - I will miss the lecture but I plan of still finding 2 primo seats strating with the great band that is called ANTI-HOUSE - the trio I saw in March (Halvorson/Laubrock/Rainey) with the *great* Kris Davis on paino and John Hebert on bass.
unlike some others here, I am a fan of Charles Gayle and I have not seen him live since the late 90's.
Once in a lifetime, one must hear a 3 saxophone front line with Parker/Drake.
Don't now what I will be doing the 'solo dance' set but I wont' be in my seat and I doubt I will be dancing
also looking forward to the duet with Brown and Levin. I saw the two of them with Steve Swell a few years ago and Daniel Levin is an outrageously great cellist.
as far as the Vernon Reid band, who knows - maybe my wife will like it or maybe they will be something else - who knows? some great guys in the band, that's for sure![/QUOTE]
That band is a variation of Burnt Sugar, Greg Tate's band. A lot of the names there are regulars in Burnt Sugar. I saw them once and was enthralled by their music. Hope you enjoy it, Steve.
as my wife said, it was the greatest band she ever saw - she isn't a "jazz fan" but she likes the shows - but this is a band that all should see live - Parker's themes were as strong as anything I have heard from him, Rob Brown was stupendous and Barnes was succinct and cutting - and seeing and hearing William Parker and Hamid Drake 10 feet in front of me connect like no other bassist and drummer do was shown during a duo section with Parker playing Parker and Hamid with just his hands - pure magic and telepathy.
In Order to Survive
Yes indeed! A stellar set. Rob was in one of those "zones" where the notes fly out of his horn with rapid fire, Rob pouring the heart and soul into the music. As the unassuming, low key person that he is said, when I confronted him the next day, "well that was the direction from William". Indeed! One of my highlights from the festival.
Also favorites: The Thing + Joe McPhee with Mats tearing it up on baritone and the second greatest drummer in the world, Paal Nilssen Love.
Eternal Unity with Dave Burrell, Sabir Mateen, Parker, and William Hooker playing a highly spirited set and Hooker not drowning anyone out.
Steve Swell Quintet. Who is Chris Forbes? Pianist who I saw with this same quintet a year and a half ago, tearing it up, and have not seen or ever heard of/from since. Dynamite group. There was Rob again, doing it up into the stratosphere. And Michael T.A. Thompson, perhaps one of the best underated drummers in the world.
Trio 3 (Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille) in top form. My two favorite living alto saxophonists on the same stage, same night!
The following week I heard Oliver tearing it up in his Organ Quartet at Shapeshifter with a monster (forget his name) on drums.
Also, former Detroiter Francisco Mora played 3 scintillating sets at Zinc Bar last week with the great baritone saxist Alex Harding and darius Jones on alto, along with a large percussion section.
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